Penn Hospital
(asked on 14th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of patient care at Penn Hospital.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department has not made any such assessments as these are matters for the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC recently inspected Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in February 2023. The CQC looked at acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units core services at five sites, including wards at Penn Hospital.
The CQC rated wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units as ‘Requires Improvement’ overall and in all domains except ‘Caring’, which was rated ‘Good’.
The CQC identified five breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The CQC served requirement notices for the breaches and the Trust has subsequently devised an action plan to address the CQC’s concerns. The CQC monitors this regularly, including via monthly meetings with Trust leaders.